Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Live source based ebuild proposals

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:54 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> master is just a name, you may have the main development happen in 
> another branch (say devel) and the stabler tree is kept on the master 
> branch and you may want to track both as well.
> 
> Or even worse, you get two lines of development you want to track
> that stay in completely different vcs. And that is the case of a real 
> package, not theory. In those cases having a template could help a
> bit, having -scm + useflag is exactly the same as having bare
> useflags and slots.

Yes, sometimes upstreams are insane. Then we can't deal with them.
We're aiming to handle the large majority of sensible cases here, not
the things that don't map onto version concepts in any way.

> >> Then if you continued to read you'll notice that
> > 
> > ...you got so incoherent I gave up trying to work out what you're on
> > about. You still haven't shown how to solve the simple example I
> > gave earlier in the thread.
> 
> Relying to offense because I just pointed out something you dislikes 
> since you cannot find a argumentative way reply isn't exactly polite
> or mature.

No. Really. Again. You've been steadily talking nonsense on this whole
issue. Please step back, start again and clearly and concisely explain
in coherent English how you solve the simple example I gave earlier in
the thread. I am far from the only person who hasn't managed to work
out your explanation of this simple case so far.

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Ciaran McCreesh

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